1950 in animation
| Years in animation: | 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 |
Events in 1950 in animation.
Events[]
January[]
- January 7: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Little Quacker premieres, produced by MGM. It marks the debut of Quacker the duckling.[1]
- January 20: Jack Hannah's Lion Around, a Donald Duck cartoon produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Louie the Mountain Lion.[2]
February[]
- February 11: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short Mutiny on the Bunny premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[3]
- February 15: Cinderella, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson and produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.[4] The characters Gus and Jaq will later become popular comics characters.
March[]
- March 3:
- Jack Kinney's The Brave Engineer, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.[5]
- In Isadore Sparber's Quack-A-Doodle-Doo, produced by the Famous Studios, Baby Huey makes his debut.[6]
- March 4: Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck cartoon The Scarlet Pumpernickel premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[7]
- March 11: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Texas Tom premieres, produced by MGM.[8]
- March 23:
- 22nd Academy Awards: Chuck Jones' Pepe LePew cartoon For Scent-imental Reasons, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[9]
- Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester short Canary Row premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. It marks the debut of Tweety's owner, Granny.[10]
May[]
- May 27: Tex Avery's Ventriloquist Cat premieres, produced by MGM.[11]
June[]
- June 17: Bob McKimson's short What's Up Doc? premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.[12]
- June 30: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Motor Mania premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation.
July[]
- July 1: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Safety Second premieres, produced by MGM.[13]
August[]
- August 5: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck cartoon Golden Yeggs premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons in which Rocky the gangster makes his debut.[14]
- August 12: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Hillbilly Hare premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[15]
September[]
- September 2: Chuck Jones' The Ducksters premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons in which Daffy Duck presents a radio quiz show and torments Porky Pig.[16]
October[]
- October 11: Jiří Trnka's animated film Prince Bayaya premieres.[17]
- October 28: Bob McKimson's Sylvester the Cat cartoon Pop 'Im Pop! premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons which features Sylvester trying to impress his son by catching a giant mouse (which is actually the kangaroo Hippety Hopper).[18]
November[]
- November 2: John Hubley and Robert Cannon's Gerald McBoing-Boing, produced by UPA, premieres.[19]
- November 3: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Hold That Pose, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Humphrey the Bear.[20]
- November 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Cue Ball Cat premieres, produced by MGM.[21]
December[]
- December 13: Jean Image's Jeannot l'intrépide (Johnny the Giant Killer) premieres.[22]
- December 16: Chuck Jones' Rabbit of Seville premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.[23]
Films released[]
Births[]
January[]
- January 20: Frank Mula, American television writer and producer (The Simpsons), (d. 2021).[24]
February[]
- February 1: Adam Beckett, American animator, special effects artist and teacher (Star Wars), (d. 1979) in a house fire.[25][26]
- February 12: Michael Ironside, Canadian actor (voice of Darkseid in Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Harley Quinn, Dark Knight Returns Batman in The New Batman Adventures, Colonel Moss/Dr. Brooks in Wolverine and the X-Men, Ultra Magnus in Transformers: Prime).
- February 17: Alan Burnett, American television writer and producer (Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Disney Television Animation).
March[]
- March 26: Alan Silvestri, American composer and conductor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Stuart Little, Lilo & Stitch, Stuart Little 2, The Polar Express, The Wild, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, The Croods).
- March 31: Yoshifumi Kondō, Japanese animator (Studio Ghibli) and director (Whisper of the Heart), (d. 1998).[27]
April[]
- April 12: David Cassidy, American actor and singer (voice of Roland Pond in the Kim Possible episode Oh Boyz), (d. 2017).[28]
- April 12: Ron Perlman, American actor (voice of Slade on Teen Titans, Clayface, Jax-Ur, and Orion in The DC Animated Universe, Killer Croc in The Batman, Warhawk in Kim Possible, Firelord Sozin in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hellboy in Sword of Storms, and Blood and Iron, The Lich in Adventure Time, The Stabbington Brothers in Tangled, and Tangled: The Series).
May[]
- May 17: Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (wrote songs for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin), (d. 1991).[29]
- May 18: Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer (Rugrats).
- May 31: Jean Chalopin, French screenwriter and producer (founder of DIC Entertainment).
June[]
- June 11: Pedro Bell, American illustrator, animator and comics artist (once made an animated short starring his character Larry Lazer), (d. 2019).[30]
- June 15: Dale Baer, American animator, animation director, layout artist and character animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2021).[31]
- June 18: Arnold Leibovit, American director, producer, and screenwriter (The Puppetoon Movie).
July[]
- July 19: Simon Cadell, British actor (voice of Blackberry in Watership Down), (d. 1996).[32]
August[]
- August 3: Jo Marie Payton, American actress and singer (voice of Suga Mama Proud in The Proud Family).
- August 27: Charles Fleischer, American comedian and actor (voice of Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, Greasy, and Psycho in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dweeb in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, Boris in Balto II, and III, Elf General in The Polar Express).
- August 30: Robert Sahakyants, Armenian animator and animated film director (The Lesson), (d. 2009).[33]
September[]
- September 7: Julie Kavner, American voice actress (voice of Marge Simpson and Patty and Selma in The Simpsons).[34]
- September 14: Michael Reaves, American writer (Gargoyles, Batman: The Animated Series).
October[]
- October 9: Everett Peck, American animator, character designer (The Real Ghostbusters, Jumanji, Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla: The Series) and producer (creator of Duckman and Squirrel Boy).
- October 22: Patricia Parris, American actress (voice of Shelly in Jabberjaw, Cindy Mae and Rita in Yogi's Space Race, and Buford and the Galloping Ghost, Mrs. Hudson in Sherlock Hound, Pammy Panda in Shirt Tales, Helen Little in The Littles, Acorn in The Smurfs, Daisy Duck in Mickey's Christmas Carol).
- October 26: Dan Gilvezan, American actor (voice of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Bumblebee in The Transformers).
- October 31: John Candy, Canadian comedian and voice actor (voice of Den, Dan, Desk Sergeant and Robot in Heavy Metal, voice of Wilbur in The Rescuers Down Under), (d. 1994).[35][36]
November[]
- November 4: Boyd Kirkland, American television director (Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes), (d. 2011).
- November 7: Janno Põldma, Estonian film director and children's writer, (, Lotte from Gadgetville, Lotte and the Moonstone Secret, Lotte and the Lost Dragons).[37]
December[]
- December 11: Alexander Tatarsky, Russian animated film director, animator, producer (, Good Night, Little Ones!, Investigation Held by Kolobki, Turn off the Light!), (d. 2007).[38] He was buried at the Miusskoe cemetery in Moscow.[39]
- December 12: Darleen Carr, American actress singer and voice over artist (voice of Shanti the Girl in The Jungle Book).
- December 13: Wendie Malick, American actress (voice of Chica in The Emperor's New Groove franchise, Principal Folsom in Fillmore, Beautiful Gorgeous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Burdine Maxwell in season 1 of Bratz, Beatrice Horseman in BoJack Horseman, Eda Clawthorne in The Owl House).
- December 18: Leonard Maltin, American film critic and historian (author of The Disney Films, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, voiced himself in BoJack Horseman, and Freakazoid!).
- December 21: Jeffrey Katzenberg, American film producer (The Walt Disney Company, Dreamworks Animation).
Specific date unknown[]
- Jackie Cockle, (Cosgrove Hall Films, co-founder of Hot Animation).
- Calvin Remsberg, American actor and stage director (voice of Merry Man in Shrek), (d. 2022).[40]
Deaths[]
March[]
- March 26: Dink Trout, American radio actor (voice of Bootle Beetle in Bootle Beetle, Old Bootle Beetle & Balsam in Morris the Midget Moose and the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 51.[41]
September[]
- September 2: Frank Graham, American radio presenter and voice actor (the Big Bad Wolf in Tex Avery's Droopy, the Mouse in Slap Happy Lion and King-Size Canary, the Fox and the Crow in The Fox and the Crow, the Lion in the Tom & Jerry short Jerry and the Lion, the narrator in Disney's Chicken Little and The Three Caballeros), dies at age 35 by suicide.[42][43]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Little Quacker (MGM)".
- ^ "Lion Around". IMDb. 20 January 1950.
- ^ Borowiec, Piotr (1998). Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons. ISBN 9780810835030.
- ^ "Cinderella: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
- ^ "The Brave Engineer". 3 March 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Quack-A-Doodle-Doo (Famous Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Texas Tom (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ "The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- ^ "Canary Row". 7 October 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Ventriloquist Cat". 27 May 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "What's Up Doc? (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Safety Second (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Golden Yeggs (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ "Hillbilly Hare". 12 August 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Ducksters". 2 September 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Bajaja". 26 January 1951. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Pop 'im Pop!". 28 October 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Gerald McBoing-Boing". 2 November 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Hold That Pose". 3 November 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Cue Ball Cat". 25 November 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ ""Johnny The Giant Killer" (1950) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Rabbit Of Seville (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ "Frank Mula Obituary". Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Pamela Turner, "Adam Beckett Archived September 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine", 3/10/10
- ^ "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," "Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam Beckett Archived March 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine", 3/10/10
- ^ Collin, Robbie. "Goodbye Studio Ghibli, your genius will endure", "The Telegraph", 4 August 2014. Retrieved on 20 February 2019.
- ^ Fortin, Jacey (November 21, 2017). "David Cassidy, Heartthrob and 'Partridge Family' Star, Dies at 67". The New York Times.
- ^ Blau, Eleanor. "Howard Ashman Is Dead at 40; Writer of 'Little Shop of Horrors'", New York Times, March 15, 1991
- ^ "Pedro Bell". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ Limpabandh, Danielle (January 16, 2021). "Dale Baer, Disney Animator for The Emperor's New Groove, Winnie the Pooh, and The Lion King, Has Passed Away at 70". Walt Disney World News Today. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
- ^ "Simon Cadell". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ^ http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_person&pid=887
- ^ "Julie Kavner". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ "No drugs were involved in Candy's death". New Straits Times. Reuters. March 6, 1994.
- ^ Collins, Glenn (November 20, 1994). "John Candy, Comedic Film Star, Is Dead of a heart attack at 44". The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ "JANNO PÕLDMA | Joonisfilm". joonisfilm.ee. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Alexander Tatarsky, 56, animator". 6 August 2007.
- ^ Aleksander Tatarskiy's tomb
- ^ Actor and Director Calvin Remsberg Dies at 72
- ^ "Trout, Radio Player, Dies After Operation". North Dakota, Bismarck. The Bismarck Tribune. March 28, 1950. p. 2. Retrieved February 5, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (23 May 2014). From Radio to the Big Screen: Hollywood Films Featuring Broadcast Personalities and Programs. ISBN 9781476615585.
- ^ Tucker, David C. (27 May 2018). Gale Storm: A Biography and Career Record. ISBN 9781476632469.
External links[]
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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